December 30, 2009, 10:15PM

The Syracuse University men’s basketball team winning the national championship was a bright spot in an otherwise dismal decade. The buzz began midway through the 2002-2003 season, as Carmelo Anthony and Gerry McNamara kept triggering comebacks that put SU on top. The team’s win led to a citywide celebration that was a high point in a year that also saw the start of a war. SU’s national championship basketball team is No. 3 in The Post-Standard’s list of the top stories of the decade.